Definition of World-wide web

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World Wide Web
network on the Internet of interconnected HTML documents which are scattered on servers worldwide, W3

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World-Wide Web Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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<World-Wide Webnetworkinghypertext> (WWW, W3, The Web) An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system which originated from the CERN

Vb Glossary 1.0
World Wide Web
World Wide Web

A system for navigating the Internet by using hyperlinks. When you use a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer, the Web appears as a collection of documents, controls, pictures, sounds, and digital movies.

A Glossary of Internet & PC Terminology
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web - The Internet facility that allows you to browse linked web pages .

WebGuest Web Glossary
World Wide Web
An Internet  client-server system to distribute information, based upon the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) . Also known as WWW, W3 or the Web. Created at CERN  in Geneva, Switzerland in 1991 by Dr. Tim Berners-Lee.

Jensen's Technology Glossary
World Wide Web
Hyperlinking system, also known as WWW or W3, that creates a point-and-click way of linking within documents, linking to other documents, and extremely popular searching of the Internet. Whereas the Internet commenced in 1969 with the linking of the Pentagon with four supercomputing centers at universities, the WWW was conceived in 1990 by particle physicists (notably Tim Berners-Lee) at CERN in Switzerland. The CERN group developed the HTML WWW coding language and the HTTP protocols for reading HTML at WWW sites. In 1993 there were only 50 WWW sites (mostly particle physicists) that exploded to nearly 10 million sites shortly after Mosaic and then Netscape added HTTP to browsers. Internet use has exploded in commerce, entertainment, and education since the advent of the WWW. Millions of individuals and organizations are setting up web sites (home pages). Web publishing is overtaking hard copy publishing. WWW shopping and education alternatives are exploding. Students can set up free web sites at <http://www.tripod.com/>. Virtual Servers Inc., for a monthly fee, will provide web server space to business firms and other parties wanting to set up network application servers. The Virtual Server home page is <http://vservers.com/>. For interactive computing on the web, see Distributed Network Computing.  Software options for 3-D rendering on the web are reviewed in the NewMedia, May 5 1998, pp. 52-64. The NewMedia web site is at http://www.newmedia.com Those authoring packages rated as "Awesome" include Live Picture Reality Studio at http://www.livepicture.com (800-724-7900) and Platinum Technology VRCreator at http://www.platinum.com (800-442-6861).  There are many other options rated as "Thumbs Up" or "Does the Job." (See also AVIBrowserInternetCookiesImage mapFAQFingerFTPHTMLHTTPHyperlinkIRCISDNISPJavaSmart agentTCP/IPTelnetUSENetWAISApple AVAudioJPEGMIMEMUDsPDAQuickTimeResource Description FrameworkSearch engine, and Web browsers)

Website design & Internet terms
World Wide Web
A system for viewing information on the Internet using hypertext links to interact within the pages being viewed, and globally. The system was devised as an academic tool for use within the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) by Tim Berners-Lee. It is an easy intuitive way to use the Internet.

Multimedia Glossary
World Wide Web (WWW)
provides the glitziest on-line information on the Internet. The Web or WWW or W3 or WaWaWa, as it is familiarly called, consists of a system of pages where the information is linked together like hypertext. As you click on each underlined word, it takes you to the next page of related information, and so on. In the Web, however, the links jump from one information source to another, where the sources may be in different countries.

Internetworking Terms
World Wide Web
A hypertext-based, distributed information system created by researchers at CERN in Switzerland. Users may create, edit or browse hypertext documents. The clients and servers are freely available.

INTERNET TERMS&ACRONYMSV1.0
WORLD-WIDE-WEB
The WWW is an internet protocol that makes use of the HTML,hypertext,and hypermedia to create pages with links to other pages.WWW pages can include graphics,audio,and video as well as text.

Noman's Java(TM) Glossary
WWW
World Wide Web. The web of systems and the data in them that is the Internet. See also Internet .


World-Wide Web Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

WordNet 2.0
World Wide Web

Noun
1. computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
(synonym) WWW, web
(hypernym) computer network

ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITION
World Wide Web (www)
a network of computers in all parts of the world, Internet "Some people use the Web to find information; others use it to find friends."

English Idioms WM 1.3a
World Wide Web
a network of computers in all parts of the world, Internet 
Some people use the Web to find information; others use it to find friends.

hEnglish - advanced version
world wide web

world wide web
n : computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol [syn: web, www]




Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
WWW
World Wide Web: Líon Domhanda
WWW browser: siúladóir WWW, scracléitheoir, líonléitheoir, líonfhéachadóir
WWW server: freastalaí WWW


World-Wide Web Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Telecommunication Standard Terms
World Wide Web (WWW)
An international, virtual-network-based information service composed of Internet host computers that provide on-line information in a specific hypertext format. Note 1: WWW servers provide hypertext metalanguage (HTML) formatted documents using the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Note 2: Information on the WWW is accessed with a hypertext browser such as Mosaic, Viola, or Lynx. Note 3: No hierarchy exists in the WWW, and the same information may be found by many different approaches.

RF Electronics
World Wide Web (WWW)
Internet tool that is capable of displaying both text and graphics in full color on the same page. Before the web, users navigated the Internet using command-line interfaces and exchanged only textual information. The WWW provides graphics, sound, video, an easy-to-use interface, and the ability to follow hypertext links to other places on the Internet.


World-Wide Web Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Raynet Business & Marketing Glossary
World Wide Web
the whole gamut of hypertext servers that let HTML programmers present virtual, on-screen pages combining text, graphics, audio, links to other pages. The Internet is the global telecommunication network of linked computers that form a giant repository of stored information. The Web, using hypertext, is a means of accessing, organising and moving through the information. Is is a subset of the Interent (see Internet).


World-Wide Web Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
World Wide Web
"The World Wide Web" and "WWW" redirect here. For other uses, see Web and WWW (disambiguation). For the web browser, see WorldWideWeb.

The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, a user views web pages that may contain textimagesvideos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Sam Walker from the United Kingdom, and Robert Cailliau from Belgium, working at CERN in GenevaSwitzerland. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of web standards (such as the markup languages in which web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.


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